INVESTMENT IN EDUCATION SYSTEM OF UZBEKISTAN

Care for education - Care for future Education is announced as the state priority policy of Uzbekistan; Country literacy indicator is one of the highest in the world - 99,34%; More than 64% of country population is under age of 30; Annually more than 57% of the state budget or about 12% of GDP is spent on social sphere.

During the first years of implementation of reforms in education, based on the world practice proven many times, I believe that if we implement our purposes successfully, a positive “explosion effect”, will be assured. Islom Karimov President of the Republic of Uzbekistan

National Model for Personnel Training Initial condition – Beginning of reforms from 1997 The main purpose of this model is to train a perfect person and qualified specialist Person Production Science Continuous education The world international education systems

Continuous education of Uzbekistan Preschool Higher education Postgraduate education Above ages Up to 6-7 ages Up to (6-7)-15 ages Up to (14-15)-18 ages Up to (17-18)-23 ages Secondary specialized education Out-of-school education Three-year academic lyceum vocational college Professional development and retraining Bachelor’s degree (education period minimum 4 years) Master’s degree minimum 2 years) Postgraduate minimum 3 years) Doctoral candidacy Minimum 3 years ) General secondary education Primary school 4 years) General secondary school 5 years)

Fundamental renovation and reconstruction of buildings and communications infrastructure of secondary schools 2. Equipping of secondary schools with modern train-laboratory equipment, computer technologies, textbooks and manuals The main directions of the State National School Education Development Program 5. Improvement of school sport facilities and development of sport in secondary schools 3. Improvement of state educational standards and curriculum 4. Provision of secondary schools with qualified personnel, development of effective system of training, in-service training and retraining of teachers, strengthening of teachers work stimulation

(condition, problems, tasks) State educational standarts of secondary education of the Republic of Uzbekistan (condition, problems, tasks)

Let’s look back in history Before Independence The State educational standards have not been developed and introduced in educational process in Uzbekistan. Curricula and programs have been more directed on reception of the academic knowledge, instead of on development of vital skills. Psychophysiological features and intellectual possibilities of pupils were not always considered In 1998 for the first time in Republic (one of the first among the states of the former Union), the State educational standarts of the general secondary education have been developed and confirmed by the Cabinet Decision (from August, 16th, 1999 for № 390) and are introduced in educational process. The first steps

State educational standarts of secondary education of the Republic of Uzbekistan

Structure of State standards of the general secondary education Knowledge – storing and repeated reproduction of the studied material Knowledge. Abilities. skills Ability – application studied in familiar situations of the Republic of Uzbekistan State educational standarts of secondary education Skills – application of knowledge and abilities In various reality situations and acquisition New experiments Basic Educational plan The standard document defining the name of subjects, academic load and its distributions on classes Curriculums Distribution of volume of subjects on themes in a consecutive order Criteria and the indicators defining Degree of mastering by pupil ЗУНов On the basis of SES Estimation system

Necessary minimum volume of knowledge, skills, abilities have been defined Only for graduates of schools In some curriculums have insufficiently been considered age and psiho – psychophysiological features of pupils Problems in the structural maintenance SES revealed in the course of introduction Knowledge, skills and abilities are not divided on categories . The SES are not developed in some subjects of schools with not state training language (Kirghiz, Kazakh, Tadjik, Turkmen, Karakalpak languages of the literature), and also on labour training KSA are not standardised in initial classes, and are defined as the requirement.

Problems have been solved during of realisation of the National Government program of development of school education in 2004-2009 The advanced GosOsO, the modernised curriculums are confirmed by the Report of the Governmental commission for № 07/1-365от On December, 16th 2009 г SES have been improved, the curriculums are modernised and experimented at some schools in all subjects . SES have passed State registration on February, 15th, 2010 for № 05-182 The advanced GosOsO, the modernised curriculums since 2009-2010 are introduced in new textbooks and in educational process of schools.

There are schools in 7 languages in the Republic of Uzbekistan The Uzbek language (8779 schools) The Karakalpak language (380 schools) The Russian language (799 schools) There are schools in 7 languages in the Republic of Uzbekistan The Kirgiz language (61 schools) The Tadjik language (268 schools) The Kazakh language (472 schools) The Turkmen language (46 schools)

Board of guardians of Republican book fund at the Ministry of Finance The Structure of rent system of maintenance with textbooks for pupils of secondary schools (the Decision of the Cabinet PP-362 from 5/31/2006) Board of guardians of Republican book fund at the Ministry of Finance The Republican book fund at the Ministry of finance The Ministry of Public Education General secondary schools Parents of pupils

Parameter of maintenance with textbook of secondary school The published textbooks (mln)

Capital reconstruction Classification of the executed works and the spent means in the secondary schools according by the State National Program of development of school education for 2004-2009 г 4669 schools have been repaired work, it has been spent 600,7 billion in 2004-2010 New construction Capital reconstruction Capital repair Operating repair

Healthy generation is the base for development Three-phase public sport tournaments were established to develop child sport as well as to involve pupils in sport activities regularly. “Umid nihollari” tournament for students of secondary schools “Barkamol avlod” tournament for students of academic lyceums and vocational colleges “Universiada” tournament for students of higher education institutions

Child Music and Art Schools

Information on sports constructions are built The reconstructed object in 2004-2009 at the expense of means of Fund of development of children's sports at the Ministry of Public Education 611 sports objects have been repaired and it has been spent 83,8 billion sum In 2004-2009 New building New sports halls The reconstructed object

Winners of the international science competitions Number of medals received Gold medal Silver medal Bronze medal Diploma Medals

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